♪ brent: this is "dw news," live from berlin. in the final week of campaigning here in germany it is now or never for a man named martin schulz. chancellor angela merkel's main challenger faces a grilling before pulling in the voters for the german election this sunday. also coming up, u.s. president donald trump urges the united nations to reform and pledges the full support of the united states to do it. and we messed up. the chief executive of one of

europe's biggest airlines admits the company made a hash of scheduling pilots. hundreds of passengers left stranded. plus, washington comes to hollywood for this year's emmy awards. >> this will be the largest audience to witness an emmy, period. both in person and around the world. brent: a surprise controversial appearance by former white house spokesman sean spicer is the highlight of a night of political satire at the u.s. tv emmy awards. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us. with less than a week to go to the german election, the

principl challenger, martin schulz come has been facing questions from a live television audience. the social democrat appear done germany's public broadcaster ard. his party is heading into the polls trailing chancellor merkel's christian democrats by double digits. this debate was his last big television appearance before the election on sunday. we want to cross over now to our correspondent simon young. he has been following that town hall debate. good evening to you, simon. what were the highlights tonight? simon: this town hall meeting covered quite a wide range of domestic issues from migration to the environment to transport to pensions and many more things besides that. martin schulz handled it all pretty well. he is very good with the human touch, good with people.

he talked about migration and said he thought that germany is capable of integrating many hundreds of thousands of refugees, for instance, because he says germany has enough work for them to do and it is important they are employed if they are going to be integrated into society. we also heard him say he would continue if he were in power, the policy of the conservative finance minister, balancing the books and paying down the debt, reducing the public debt. not everyone in the social democrat party would support that, but he also took the opportunity to score points against chancellor merkel. let's have a listen to him doing that right now. >> in four years time i also want to have invested in

schools, nurseries, and an infrastructure. if this country continues to follow angela merkel's lined everything we will be fine, we will continue living off our capital and in four years time we will be worse off than today. brent: simon, if you watch schulz, he looked comfortable in this format. we're last week german chancellor angela merkel did the same kind of format on television. she got great reviews. when the dust settles, who do you think will have done better in this format? simon: it is hard to say. they both have different styles. angela merkel is always very detailed and sober in her responses. martin schulz is a man who tries to find a level with the person asking the question and show how well he understands what they are going through if they are telling him they find it hard to get by on their small pension, or with two jobs, because of

comments we heard this evening. in martin schulz says he understands that. that is where he tries to score some points. but of course he has a huge amount of ground to make up in the next six days with his social democratic party. 13 or 14 points behind chancellor merkel's conservatives. brent: simon young on the story force tonight. thank you very much. they could be a political upset on sunday in the national election. the election is likely to see a far right party into the german parliament for the first time since the second world war. in fact, it polls indicate the alternative for germany party could become the third-largest party in parliament the hind only angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats of martin schulz. the affd is anti-immigration and anti-islam. today the afd leader reiterated

that islam is incompatible with islam. reporter: attacks on islamabad in the afd party campaign materials. hardliner rejects the material out right. >> islam does not belong in germany. reporter: a sentiment still on display today. less than a week before the election, party lead candidate stumped the partyline. >> especially because islam is also a political doctorate, one cannot look at it merely from the angle of freedom of religion. as a political doctrine, islam is incompatible with a free democratic order. in this respect is not a part of germany. reporter: the teowo afd lead candidates reject the current refugee policy and say not enough people are being deported.

>> this means that germany has become a safe haven for criminals and terrorists from all over the world. where it is easy to get into to a lack of border controls and where they never have to leave. reporter: they recently made comments for racist headlines, but they deny -- >> it may be that in one week, nazis who once again enter the german bundestag. is that not a reason to say it is worth fighting, we want to do everything from keeping this brood from having a state in this country? -- having a say in this country? reporter: none of the other german parties want to join in a coalition with the afd. brent: you can join the discussion on the election by following dw's campaign germany decides. there is full coverage on her

website www.dw.de and you can get updates on our facebook page or follow us on twitter and we will be here live on sunday as the results come in. join me in the entire dw news team start -- sunday starting at 4:00 p.m. berlin time, 10:00 a.m. new york time as germany decides. u.s. president trump and his chinese counterpart xi jinping have agreed to maximize pressure on north korea. the leaders spoke by phone or the escalating crisis over pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. trump is in new york tonight for the un's general assembly, where he made a speech at a u.s.-sponsored event aimed at reforming the united nations. mr. trump said mismanagement and bureaucracy meant that the u.n. had failed to reach its full potential. reporter: in his first appearance at the united nations, u.s. president donald trump did not mince his words.

trump said the organization needed less red tape and more efficiency. >> in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. while the united nations on a regular budget has increased by 140% and its staff has more than doubled since 2000, we're not seeing the results in line with this investment. reporter: president trump is a longtime critic of the united nations. on the campaign trail, he dismissed the world body as a club for people to talk and have a good time. u.n. chief antonio guterres is also pushing for reform and has welcomed trump's initiative. >> tremendous potential. all of us have the responsibility to make sure we live up to it. our shared objective is a 21st

century u.n. offers more for people, less on process. more on delivery, less on bureaucracy. reporter: on tuesday trump will address the general assembly. amid concerns of global crises. . brent: it is not just heads of state meeting in new york this week. aid groups are also working on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. the charity save the children has released a report saying over 600,000 rohingya children could be in bangladesh by the end of this year. he minute. agencies are struggling to cope with a massive influx of rohingya fleeing neighboring myanmar amid escalating violence against the most -- muslim minority. the rohingya are victims of ethnic cleansing. a voice that deserves attention from everyone, especially at the

u.n., is that of my next guest. the ceo of save the children international, overseeing 25,000 staff members in 120 countries in a budget of $2 billion a year. she is also a former prime minister from denmark and she joins me tonight from new york. welcome, it is good to have you on the program. before we talk about the situation in bangladesh with the rohingya, i want to ask you about what we heard today. the u.s. president and secretary general taras -- general pushing for less red tape, maybe cutting costs. when you hear talk like that, do you get concerned? how will that type of reform impact the work that you do? guest: first of all, thank you for having me. i think it is great when new leaders coming to the u.n. and discuss how we can improve the u.n. system because one thing i

know for sure, both as a former prime minister but also now heading up one of the biggest independent child agencies in the world, i know that we need strong collaboration between neighbors -- nations. look at what we are seeing in yemen, what we're seeing now in africa, and particularly with the rohingya people having to flee in myanmar. what we need in this world is more multilateral cooperation between nations, stronger institutions rather than the opposite. when i am hoping his trump will come here tomorrow and make a speech to all of us were he is advocating for strong international institutions because what we know is if we do not have strong international institutions we're leaving the most vulnerable people on this planet to themselves. brent: speaking of the most full durable people on the planet, in just the past week, save the children has announced terrible statistics from syria and from

the rohingya refugees in bangladesh. we are talking about thousands and thousands of children missing school, fleeing war, not having a home. do think the world realizes what is happening to an entire generation of children, or are these headlines that are easily forgotten? helle: i think these headlines are easily forgotten. we tend to forget a bit about what is happening in the world in general. it is like when a crisis leads the news and we don't get it when we watch the news, we forget it exists. but we want to make the world aware that is still immense suffering for children all across the world. we have rohingya children right now who have to flee their homes and make it across the border to bangladesh. in bangladesh, which as we know have their own problems, they have to cater for 400,000 people

coming in where more than half of them are children. we have people on the ground and we have access to ask these children suffering why they are fleeing. the stories we hear from the children arch -- are stories that children should never be telling. they talk about children being shot at when they stand by the border. a child we spoke to had to leave her mother in her burning house because the mother was too ill to be taken out. she will never see her mother again. these are stories that we need to see and hear and act on because what we are seeing in bangladesh, people fleeing from myanmar, should not be happening. we can do is get the right help to these children. save the children is on the ground ready to help, but we need more help from the international community to do so. brent: and you will be joining the un's secretary-general later

this week, i understand, to discuss the threat of famine in four countries. tell us a little more about that. helle: well, we are seeing. inlet of children that go to bed hungry. . -- we are seeing a lot of children that go to bed hungry. we are seeing more people going hungry than we had for several years. and that is because families and children are experiencing drought, war and conflict, and that means we have 20 million people that we are fearing will be malnourished in the near future. this is not right. it is not right but we're seeing in yemen right now. we are seeing children who are struggling with diseases that we abolished in europe 100 years ago. the good news of course is that we can still act and help these children. the devastating news is that we do not get access to the children.

simple, humanitarian access to children in bangladesh, in yemen -- we will not be able to help them. but with simple means and access to children we could save many, many thousands and perhaps millions of children from dying. brent: we certainly hope that is indeed what happens. you are doing very important work. helle, ceo of save the children joining us tonight from new york. thank you very much. we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us. helle: thank you very much for having me. brent: herere some of the other stories now making headlines around the world. to protest reap -- north korea's recent nuclear test, spain has expelled the country's ambassador. they told the diplomat he must be by the end of the month. the un security council imposed new sanctions on pyongyang after its sixth and largest nuclear test this month.

another powerful storm is bearing down on a string of caribbean islands devastated by hurricane irma earlier this month. hurricane maria hasn't upgraded to a major category three storm, packing wind almost 200 kilometers per hour. it is on track to hit puerto rico by wednesday. a violent storm in western romania has left eight people dead and dozens more injured. winds up to 100 kilometers an hour ripped off roofs and toppled trees on sunday in the city in the west of the country. the storm also brought described -- destruction to serbia and croatia. looks like a tornado. all right, javier is here with business news. chaos at ryanair. javier: you're used to seeing chaos there, but only when you are checking in or boarding. now it is at institutional level. they are canceling thousands of

flights, a rather unusual incident for the otherwise reliable carrier. they cannot even say which flights are canceled after win state and customers are demanding answers. the ceo said they messed up the pilot's vacation itineraries but not everyone is buying that. reporter: around 40 to 50 flights are said to be canceled daily, a total of around 2000 flights by the end of october. ryanair canceled the flights to cope with pilot shortages and improve its punctuality record. >> we can either run the operation with a 55% to 60% punctuality with far more flight disruptions inevitable cancellations and huge passenger dissatisfaction to 40% of our customer base. or we do what i thought was the sensible thing, take out about 50 flights a day for the next six weeks while we have this crew issue. reporter: 2000 canceled flights.

that means hundreds of thousands of angry customers. but that did not seem to bother ryanair. >> it is not fair for the people who have booked holidays, everything. to be canceled like this. it is not proper. >> i have no idea. reporter: the budget carrier is bracing itself for a bill of damages totaling 20 million euros. but analysts are doubtful that improving the punctuality record is the real reason for the canceled flights. rather, ryanair could be trying to grab as many of the -- if air berlin stops operations, those coveted slots would be auctioned off. but only airlines with a sufficient number of free planes for the additional flights would be eligible to bid. javier: the eu's economic chief has joined the chorus demanding american internet giants pay more in tax. in an interview they said they

should pay their fair share and should be taxed in the same way as the classic economy. late less week you finance ministers called for an emergency tax on companies like facebook and google. they accuse them of basing operations in low tax countries, giving them an unfair advantage. shares of facebook and google fell on wall street as trading began for the week. monitoring them for us is our financial correspondent on wall street jens korte. jens, we have seen fines in unless couple months at least for facebook, but they have not really affected the company. should they be worried now? jens: so far it looks like those tech companies are not too concerned yet. especially if you look at the european union to make such changes, all of the countries would need to agree and we have already heard objections from companies like ilm, cypress,

czech republic or denmark. it is going to be a long shot. there is still talk about tighter regulations here in the united states on top of those tech companies. they did treat a bit lower on the monday session. javier: the companies are still up the. despite political turmoil u.s. markets seem to be unstoppable coming hitting records again this monday. jens: it is pretty amazing. we just passed the ninth year anniversary of the bankruptcy of lehman brothers. now on monday we reached a new record height. if you look at it from the lows we saw after the financial crisis in march of 2009, since then, the s&p 500 has gained almost 270%, and the dow jones has a new record. we have the federal reserve meeting on tuesday and wednesday. no news is good news.

we did not get a lot of economic news here on monday. that was good enough to get another record on wall street. javier: let's see how the week progresses. thank you very much for the analysis. back to the eu, where brexit talks are not making any real progress in financial markets worldwide are looking for guidance. on monday the bank of england governor discussed his central-bank's interest rate policy at the imf meeting in washington and sent the pound sterling down almost 1%. reporter: brexit is coming. in while some politicians in the u.k. still try to fake it as a positive for the country, most fear the road ahead. at the imf meeting in washington dc, the bank of england governor said brexit is likely to hurt britain's growth prospects in the short-term. for him, the negative effects of brexit are clear. >> any reduction in openness with the eu is unlikely to be

immediately compensated by new ties of a similar magnitude with other trade partners. and even if those new agreements with other partners could be struck instantaneously, the reorientation of business relationships will take some time. reporter: britain's inflation rate has accelerated this year due in large part to the fall of the pound since the referendum decision in june 2016 to leave the eu. any incoming interest rate rises would be limited and gradual, a statement less hawkish than expected. javier: i'm still mad because i was not invited to the emmy ceremony last night. what i was told you know a lot about it. brent: that's right. maybe if you had been a white house press secretary and told a couple on truths -- untruths, you would have been invited. the words recognize the best and

u.s. primetime television. satirical tv show saturday night live took the most prizes. plenty of jaws dropped with the appearance of the president's former press secretary, sean spicer. reporter: "the handmaid's tale" got top honors at this year's emmy awards with best drama series, best supporting actress and best actress for elizabeth moss. everything that happens in "the handmaid's tale," based on margaret atwood's novel, is taken from real incidents. the series is more than just realistic. >> never believe it can never happen here. which was one of the premises i used for the book. and as i have often said,

nothing went into the book that people did not do. reporter: "big little lies" took five prizes in the limited series categories including wins for nicole kidman and laura dern. >> i also am a mother and a wife. i have two little girls in my darling keith, who i asked to help me pursue this artistic path, and have sacrificed so much for it. so this is yours. i want my little girls to have this on the shelf and to look at it and go, every time my mom did not put me to bed, it is because of this. i got something. [laughter] >> and the emmy goes to, julia louis-dreyfus. reporter: "veep" won best comedy for the third time in julia louis-dreyfus one emmy history, taking her best comedy actress

award for the sixth consecutive year. the show about a female president had a special resonance. >> i will destroy you in ways that are so creative they will honor me for it at the kennedy center. reporter: one of the highlights of the politically charged evening was the appearance of former white house press secretary sean spicer. >> this will be the largest audience to witness an ammys, period. reporter: at this year's emmy awards the line between fact and fiction got fuzzier than ever. brent: the ovation was so good he had to tell a twice. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following. martin schulz has faced questions from a live tv audience, his last big chance to sway voters before sunday's general election. his social democrats are trailing angela merkel's by double digits. president trump cultural reform

of the u.n. because he said it failed to reach its full potential. he pledged the united states would work with the went to achieve reform. after a short break i would back to take it to the day. we're going to have an in-depth look at the u.n. and a u.s. president named donald trump. you will be right back -- we we'll be right back. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

elaine reyes: a mass migration away from war and violence. more than a million people have fled to europe, a crisis that has burdened its borders, but some have found solace in south america. i'm elaine reyes in washington, d.c., and this is "americas now." syrian refugees head to south america with the expectation of building a new life after running away from a conflict zone. [man shouting in native language] man: maybe brazil is just a station for another movement-- man: yes. man: or maybe i will stay here in brazil. i don't know. but in brazil, i can't survive. i don't know. man: you can't? man: no, because i--there is no job. reyes: brazil opens the door to thousands of syrians, but life in the promised land is not easy either. man: the moment when you decided to leave... reyes: correspondent gerry hadden reports from sao paulo.